San Francisco International Airport is facing significant disruption right now, and the implications for United Airlines go beyond a few bad weeks of delays.
One of the airport’s four runways is closed through early October thanks to a construction project that just commenced. That alone would slow things down. But the bigger issue is a change in how aircraft are allowed to land. The FAA has reduced the number of arrivals per hour because of safety concerns tied to the airport’s closely-spaced parallel runways. Per the FAA:
In the past, SFO could handle about 54 arrivals per hour in good weather. That number has now dropped to around 36, a 33% decrease. Even after construction is finished, projections suggest capacity will only recover to roughly 45 arrivals per hour.
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